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“Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”
~~ Muhammad Ali ~~
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
~~ Aristotle ~~
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
~~ Aristotle
“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.”
~~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.”
~~ Francesco Guicciardini
“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
~~ Abraham Lincoln
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”
~~ Thomas A. Edison
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
~~ Edward W. Howe
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
~~ Elbert Hubbard
“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
~~ Elbert Hubbard
“A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.”
~~ Pam Brown
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
~~ Robert Louis Stevenson
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
~~ Alice Walker
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
~~ Anaïs Nin
“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”
~~ Robert Brault
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
~~ William Blake
“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”
~~ Buddha
“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
~~ Epicurus
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
~~ Arnold H. Glasow
“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”
~~ Katherine Mansfield
“True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.”
~~ Ben Jonson
“One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.”
~~ E.M. Forster
“Those truly linked don’t need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.”
~~ Deng Ming-Dao
“Truth springs from argument amongst friends.”
~~ David Hume
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
~~ Samuel Coleridge
“Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.”
~~ Seneca
“This is my beloved and this is my friend.”
~~ Song of Solomon
“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.”
~~ Blaise Pascal
“I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.”
~~ Ann Richards
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.”
~~ Henri Nouwen
“If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends - you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.”
~~ Alice Duer Miller
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”
~~ John Leonard
“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”
~~ Thomas Jefferson
“Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.”
~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”
~~ Eugene Kennedy
“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”
~~ Plautus
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
~~ Plutarch
“Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!”
~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.”
~~ George MacDonald
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
~~ Marcel Proust
“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.”
~~ Joseph Roux
“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.”
~~ Margaret Lee Runbeck
“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
~~ Shirley MacLaine
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
~~ Henry David Thoreau
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
~~ Albert Schweitzer
“A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.”
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.”
~~ Eleanor Roosevelt
“Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.”
~~ Samuel Pepys
“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.”
~~ Laurence J. Peter
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
~~ Henry David Thoreau
“True friends stab you in the front.”
~~ Oscar Wilde
“Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.”
~~ George Eliot
“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?”
~~ Henry David Thoreau
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
~~ Henry David Thoreau
“Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.”
~~ It’s a Wonderful Life
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
~~ Oprah Winfrey
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
~~ George Washington
“A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.”
~~ Ecclesiasticus 6:14
“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
~~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
~~ Marlene Dietrich
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”
~~ Martin Luther King, jr.
“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”
~~ Katherine Mansfield
“We need not think alike to love alike.”
~~ Francis David
“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”
~~ Henry Ward Beecher
“You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.”
~~ Indira Gandhi
“It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.”
~~ Zora Neale Hurston
“It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”
~~ Mohandas K. Gandhi
“Though friendship is not quick to burn,
It is explosive stuff.”
~~ May Sarton
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”
~~ Rabindranath Tagore
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
~~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
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